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/r/technology is a subreddit dedicated to the discussion of all things technology. This subreddit is for technology-related submissions only, but we allow articles which are of a political nature provided they are also significantly related to technology.

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Technology is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, and methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a pre-existing solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an applied input/output relation or perform a specific function. (Wikipedia)*

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I guess I'm another terrorist to blame here. I never turn off my music player because flying scares the shit out of me, and focusing on the music and relaxing as much as I can is the only thing that keeps me from screaming aloud during takeoff and (sometimes) landing.

The rule is pretty bullshit anyway, the real reason is just to get you to listen to the safety information they repeat on every single flight you go on. Even if every single passenger had three wireless devices going at the same time it wouldn't interfere with the avionics - the radio tower's putting out more power than all of the other devices combined, and planes routinely fly over cell towers and other radio emitters.

Right. Smoking in the toilet is a Federal offense (in the US, at least), but bringing a device on board a plane that could cause the plane to crash gets a "Please turn off all electronic devices during take-off and landing" and a dirty look from the flight attendant.

If cell phones interfered with planes then they would crash every time they passed too close to a cell tower. The output from one of those things is tens of thousands of times greater than a cell phone on the plane.

Landing is usually not scary. But sometimes given a side-wind or a large amount of weather or turbulence, landing can go from boring to the most terrifying of situations. Otherwise they'd only make you turn off devices during take-off.